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Christmas is just a week away and those traveling along highway two just east of Chinook get a cheerful reminder as they pass by these hay bale creations. Several property owners in the Paradise Valley have created some holiday art that will surely put a smile on the Grinch in any family. In small towns all along the hi-line and throughout Blaine County, an evening drive after dark to see all the creative light displays and Christmas decorations is certainly worth the time. Merry Christmas to...
Don’t miss the great selection of holiday books on display at the library. There are many old favorites as well as new books to choose from. Come and see the children’s holiday books on display as well. In the children’s section there is also a Christmas activity table. Bring your family to the library this holiday season. The Book Challenge this month is to reread your favorite book. Also time is running out for the 2019 Reading Challenge to read at least 52 books this year. Please contact the library when you have completed either chall...
The movie Christmas Jars will be showing in the library meeting room at 1:00 p.m. today. The library will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Tuesday December 24, 2019. There will not be any programs on Tuesday. We will be closed Wednesday December 25, 2019 in observance of Christmas Day. We will be open regular hours the rest of the week. The display table has a variety of Christmas books for the month of December. Whether you are looking for a quick story, a craft idea or a cookbook, you can...
Another successful hunt was had this fall by a Blaine County youth hunter. Halle Mitchell, 15 years old, recently shot this monster Whitetail Buck. This worthy animal scored 170" and is very heavy and wide at 19 1/2". Here at the Blaine County Journal we welcome submissions from all hunters, young and old. Our readers have made it clear through the years that they enjoy seeing pictures of these success stories. Please send your photo with a brief description, who, what, when and where to...
A sincere thank you goes out to everyone who supported the Wine & Cheese fundraiser event! Thanks to the Friends of the Library and their continuous work to help the library. Thanks to all who attended, supplied refreshments, auction items, and door prizes. We appreciate all who purchased auction items and gave donations. The library programming for children continues this week and next. Storytime for the little ones and their parents/caregivers meets on Tuesdays at 10 A.M. Elementary students...
The movie A Dog Named Christmas will be showing in the library meeting room at 1:00 p.m. today. Next Wednesday we will be showing the movie Christmas Jars. The library will be closing at 6:00 p.m. tonight, due to a scheduling conflict. We apologize for any inconvenience. Free People Reading Freely chose the book "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Della Owens for our next meeting, which will be Monday January 20, 2020. We have copies of the book and the audio book available. New members are welcome to...
Tonight is the annual Friends of the Library Holiday Wine & Cheese fundraiser from 6:00-8:00 P.M. There will be delicious refreshments, door prizes, 50/50 raffle, silent and live auctions, and wine and beer tasting! The library will be open today from 10:00-1:00 to allow for set up. You may buy your tickets today for $10 at the library or call to reserve you tickets. You may also buy tickets at the door for $15. Kick off the holidays with this fun-filled event! The library has a great selection of books for you to read this holiday season. Chec...
Thank you to everyone who stopped by to see us at the Christmas stroll. Calvin Brown and Laura Danley were the lucky winners of the bee books. Free People Reading Freely chose the book "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Della Owens for our next meeting, which will be Monday January 20, 2020. We have copies of the book available. The display table has a variety of Christmas books for the month of December. New Christmas books include: "Finding Christmas" by Karen Schaler, "Christmas in Winter Hill" by Melody Carlson, "Spirit of the Season" by Fern...
The library will be closed Thanksgiving Day but will be open Friday, November 29. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! The seventh annual Holiday Wine & Cheese fundraiser is December 4 at 6 P.M. at the library. This is the major fundraiser event of the year sponsored by the Friends of the Harlem Library. There will be delicious food, silent and live auctions, door prizes, 50/50 raffle, wine and beer tasting, and just plain fun! Tickets for adults 21 and over are on sale at the library and will be available at the door for at a slightly higher price....
Plan ahead, 28th Annual Hassle Free Christmas Program will be Tuesday December 3rd at 7:00 p.m. As always we will have demonstrations, the Bell Choir will perform and we will have plenty of goodies to eat. Blaine County Library will be closed Thursday November 28th in observance of Thanksgiving. We will also be closed Friday November 29th, but you can find us at the Christmas stroll where we will be collaborating with Buhmann Apiaries. The Bell Choir will be performing in the Library Meeting Room during the Christmas Stroll. Free People...
Continuing their Christmas tradition established over the past several years, Montana Actors' Theater (MAT) will be presenting, Jack and the Beanstalk, the classic tale of magic beans, a giant, and treasure this holiday season. The show, which will open on December 6 at 7:00 p.m., will be performed as a panto at the MAT on MSU-Northern's campus on Cowan Drive. And it will feature Chinook resident Ben Hall, who will be playing the elderly Doctor Humberdunk. The play will run through December 21....
Plan ahead, 28th Annual Hassle Free Christmas Program will be Tuesday December 3rd at 7:00 p.m. As always we will have demonstrations, the Bell Choir will perform and we will have plenty of goodies to eat. The Blaine County Library Board of Trustees will meet Monday November 25th at 4:00 p.m. in the library meeting room. Blaine County Library will be closed Thursday November 28th in observance of Thanksgiving. We will also be closed Friday November 29th, but you can find us at the Christmas...
Please join us at the Creative Christmas program Nov. 26, 7 P.M. Start off your holiday season with a fun evening featuring guest crafters Jennifer Strzelczyk and Dorothy Harris who will share holiday crafting and decorating ideas. Refreshments will be served and all ages are welcome. You may be the lucky door prize winner. Bring a friend! The Book Challenge for November is to read a book set in Montana. You may wish to choose one of the ten nonfiction prose titles nominated for the Great Montana Read sponsored by Montana PBS. Check out our...
Hannah Schoen • Teen Leader Award -Up & Coming Young Leader Victoria Kirby • 4H Ambassador • 4H Teen Leader • 2019 "I Dare You Award" Winner • The Montana Black Angus Auxiliary Buckle • Grand Champion Jr. Showman Cody Arnold • Steers of Merit Award • Grand Champion Steer of Merit Carcass Award • Reserve Champion Senior Showman Natalie Richman • Super Sweepstakes Home Economics Award • 2019 Herdsmanship Award - Sheep Barn • Lamb Carcasses - Certified Lambs • Grand Champion Lamb Carcass Mad...
4H Achievement Night Winners Continued. Great Job Everyone!...
Many locals know Ken Finley as "the guy who gives away pumpkins for Halloween from his garden." For the last few years Finley has invited anyone, especially elementary school students and their families, to come out to his pumpkin patch and pick a pumpkin for Halloween. The pumpkin patch is part of a large garden Ken has each year along Cleveland Road next to the Chinook Water Plant. He said this year he even had a volleyball team from Hays-Lodgepole that stopped and picked pumpkins on their way...
The Harlem Library board hold their monthly meeting today at 4:15 in the library meeting room. Montana PBS is holding season two of the Great Montana Read event. Ten books, Montana nonfiction prose, have been nominated. Check out the display of the nominees at the library. Voting ends November 29 on the Montana PBS website at montanapbs.org/events/greatmontanaread/. The Harlem Library November Book Challenge is to read a book set in Montana which goes right along with the Great Montana Read. Please join us when Bob Quinn will be the guest...
The Harlem Library board hold their monthly meeting today at 4:15 in the library meeting room. Montana PBS is holding season two of the Great Montana Read event. Ten books, Montana nonfiction prose, have been nominated. Check out the display of the nominees at the library. Voting ends November 29 on the Montana PBS website at montanapbs.org/events/greatmontanaread/. The Harlem Library November Book Challenge is to read a book set in Montana which goes right along with the Great Montana Read....
Bob Quinn, farmer from near Big Sandy and leading green businessman, will be the guest speaker at the Harlem Public Library November 19. In 1986 Quinn's company Montana Flour and Grains introduced the natural food industry to an ancient Egyptian wheat, called khorasan (similar to durum wheat) marketed under his own brand name KAMUT® (the ancient word for wheat.) Through the trademark an ancient grain has been preserved and guaranteed not to be genetically modified or altered. Quinn, a Farming Futurist, is always looking for ways to improve...
“A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.” -Andrew Carnegie Between 1901 and 1922 seventeen Montana communities built libraries with money given to them by the era’s richest man, Andrew Carnegie. In a new book available at the library “The Best Gift: Montana’s Carnegie Libraries” architectural historian Kate Hampton and photographer Tom Ferris showcase fifteen of those libraries that stand today. “The Chelsea Girls” is by author Fiona Davis. Playwright Haze...
The Blaine County Library will be closed Monday November 11, 2019 in observance of Veterans Day. Free People Reading Freely will meet Monday November 18th at 7:00 p.m. We will be discussing the book "Love and Other Consolation Prizes" by Jamie Ford. We have copies available for anyone who would like to participate. We will have a list of books available to choose from for our next book club meeting. Plan ahead, 28th Annual Hassle Free Christmas Program will be Tuesday December 3rd at 7:00 p.m....
Leaves are changing color From summer’s shades of green To rusts and golds and shades between. There’s a nip in the air; a chill, Frost on the pumpkin, SNOW! And it seems so dark; so very, very dark. Summer’s gone. Autumn is here. With autumn comes Halloween, oh dear! With Halloween, come the VISITORS, Nocturnal creatures, grotesque features. Witches with brooms and pointy hats Clothed in nothing but the blackest of black! Zombies just arose from their graves, They are stinky and smelly from rot and decay. Beware of a ghost or two Lurki...
Free People Reading Freely will meet Monday November 18th at 7:00 p.m. We will be discussing the book "Love and Other Consolation Prizes" by Jamie Ford. We have copies available for anyone who would like to participate. We will have a list of books available to choose from for our next book club meeting. We have one non-fiction book available this week. "Tough Love My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For" by Susan Rice is a recollection of pivotal moments from her career on the front lines of...
This past weekend, Bear Paw Mountain Outfitters produced the closing of The Vorbit Incident at the Montana Actors' Little Theater on the campus of MSU-Northern in Havre. Former Blaine County resident and 2008 Chinook High School graduate, MaryBeth Blankenship was a member of the cast. She recently shared her challenges and satisfactions in personifying the lone female role of Andromeda, a mythical princess featured in the drama. The play, with its adult humor and language, as well as some mild v...
The Blaine County Library Board of Trustees will hold their regular monthly meeting Monday October 28th at 4:00 p.m. The Book Display for October is full of Spooky Reads, including these new thrillers: “Her Father’s Secret” by Sara Bladel, “The Liar’s Child” by Carla Buckley, “Stealth” by Stuart Woods and “Quantum” by Patricia Cornwell. We have a couple of non-fiction books this week. “Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed” by Lori Gottlieb is a revealing portrait of what it means to be human. ...
